Which Teen Movie Made An Impression On You?

We all survived our teen years. Well, some of us are still in recovery.

Even if you were so confident you smiled with braces on your teeth and let your geekalicious interests be known, chances are you still looked around to see what made other teens popular. There have always been plenty of examples in the movies.

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pretty in pink (I think it was) inspired me. It must have made an impression in my head somewhere because I may have had to shop at thrift and charity shoppes when I was in high school. But I could make it cool by going vintage and sewing my own touches!

A movie called “Friends” had a soundtrack by Elton John, probably his first. About two young teens who run away to the French countryside and have a baby. I still remember one piece of dialogue: “Do you think our baby will run away from us when she’s 14?” “Well, you don’t want her living with us her whole life, do you?”

I think the inspiration I got from that movie was, “Gee, I’d like to visit France!”

Ack, I’ve never seen Pretty in Pink or Friends. I’m intrigued enough to add Friends to my netflix queue. Have to admit, I was one of those oddballs in school reading Denial of Death by Ernest Becker and watching films about the Holocaust. Drag right? I’m making up for it now, an insomniac driven to late night stand up comedy…

Hmmm… my first thought when I scrolled down the highlighted list was, “Loved the Buffy series, but didn’t much care for the movie – and I felt physically sick watching HEATHERS.” I saw my share of teen pics… but the movies that really affected me and commanded my imagination weren’t “teen” flicks. I was obsessed with RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and its sequels, the STAR TREK movies, the STAR WARS movies, and pretty much anything Disney and animated.

I guess if I had to pick a non-SFF movie, I’d have to say DIRTY DANCING. Why? Jennifer Grey’s nose. She played a character who wasn’t drop-dead gorgeous, was clumsy, who even tripped over her words – “I carried a watermelon…” – and she still got the guy.

I also liked THE BREAKFAST CLUB, more in the sense that it reminded me of my remedial chemistry and math classes, where I sat in back with the stoners because they seemed to like me (despite the fact that I didn’t party, never touched drugs, didn’t like their music, and looked like a prep), and the preppy girls in front didn’t. My proudest moment – when the guys cheered for me because I actually said “Yo” to the teacher. Lesson learned from TBC? Friendship is built on shared experiences and common adversaries rather than social cliques.

Hands down the movie that influenced me the most while growing up in general was “Goonies.” It’s a movie I fell in love with when I was a child and still love to this day. What it taught me? No matter how strange your friends are, you should stick together.

Next up would be “The Breakfast Club” which showed me…no matter how big the social gap between people, there’s the option of a relationship.

“Weird Science” could probably be put on the list as well. What that taught me? If you let your imagination soar you never know what you can make a reality. 🙂

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